Problems with RH 9

[LithiumTea]

Alright, I tried to install Red Hat 9 over XP, and this worked well on a computer once before. But, when I try the graphic install, it probes and then pretty much shuts down. I went through with the text-based, and that worked, but I'm stuck in it and quite a clueless n00b. I tried to install Mandrake over that, I've got it set to boot the cdrom first and everything, but it goes straight to RH every time. I feel really stupid and helpless. Is there anything I can do? : /

[LithiumTea]

BTW, when I was trying to install Mandrake:
I wasn't sure whether to put the md5sums disc in first, or the one with the first ISO. I tried both ways, and neither worked.....sob..

[sploo22]

What hardware do you have? Post the output of "lspci -v".

BTW, extremely cool username! :cool:

[LithiumTea]

Ah, quick note, I just realized it wasn't RH 9, it's RH 8.
This is what it looks like when the computer boots up and I log in and etc:

Red Hat Linux release 8.0 (Psyche)
Kernel 2.4.18-14 on an i686

localhost login: Lithium
Password:
(Last login time and date)
[Lithium@localhost Lithium]$ lspci -v
-bash: lspci: command not found


(Thanks for the name compliment- I'm a *tad* of a Nirvana fan, but I'm obviously totally useless at Linux ~_~;)

[serz]

/sbin/lspci -v

[LithiumTea]

Yeah, I'm really, REALLY a n00bie.
I typed that, but.. yeah... a lot scrolled by, and, I don't know what to do about that.... Someone just shoot me and get me Lindows, I'm dumb enough for it.

[serz]

Have you tried starting X from the console using "startx"?

lspci will list all your pci devices.

[LithiumTea]

Yes, I try startx, but I get lots of errors and something about 'no screens found'.
And, I understand what the other command does, but it scrolls by too fast for me to tell what it says..

[crazmit]

I had the same thing happen to me I put the first rh8 disk in and ran the install again and it worked....jmho

[LithiumTea]

I've tried that several times, and I'm still stuck..
The person whose computer I'm using is getting irritated >_>;
I need an answer quick.. please?

[crazmit]

Chances are that if you have tried everything that you can think of you might (at a last resort) go to western digitals web site and get a the low level format boot disk and try a lowlevel format of the drive


http://support.wdc.com/download/dlg/dlgdiag10.zip


try the link I provided and write 0's to the drive and try again.

ps.you don't need a W.D drive to run this program...but let the program run it takes a while.

[Syntaxis]

To limit output to one screen's worth at a time, you have to pipe said output through the "more" command, like so:

lspci -v | more

That should solve the problem... a bit like the Windows /p command, only much, much better.